Tilton flaunts her style at Patriarch

Behind the glam facade Tilton is a sophisticated distressed-debt investor and manufacturing tycoon, who has quickly become one of the richest self-made women in the US

Last year, private-equity chief Lynn Tilton flew to Detroit to try to improve sales at one of her auto-parts companies. She got a cool reception from Ford Motor's purchasing chief, Tony Brown, who asked if she was like other private-equity chiefs that "strip and flip" their companies.

"You must be mistaken," she shot back. "It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart."

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